An Analysis on the Application and Popularization of Smart Home in Chinese First-Tier Cities’ Rental Apartment Area

Abstract

Big data, Internet of Things, and Embedded Technology are gradually become more and more perfect and mature, thus, based on the above, smart home will welcome a brilliant prospect in the near future. Smart home area is like a delicious cake for lots of countries across the world. China possesses some unique predominance. On one hand, socially, China hold a vast consumer market, especially the population of Chinese young people, which are born with passion for fashion and high-tech things, they are the main potential consumers. In addition, many of them concentrated in first-tier cities, that is to say, they are the main force of renting apartments. On the other hand, politically, Chinese government has issued a series of politics about smart home, encouraging the innovative development strategy, and has put the “smart home” into China’s “13th Five-year Plan”, pushing the development and application of smart home becoming more quickly and healthily. At the meantime, Chinese government has been enlarging rental housing market positively, and has passed some concessional policies. This article begins with the concept of smart home, and their relative technologies. Then, analyzes the feasibility and potential advantages of Chinese smart home industries that applied to rental house areas. In the end, study the problems might occur in the future and propose some feasible solutions.